Management talent for California

If George Papandreou can solve Greece’s budget problem by fixing its corrupt political system, maybe California ought to try to hire him. Papandreou spent a chunk of his childhood in California (his father chaired the Berkeley econ department). Â That gives us a rightful claim on his services.

Or maybe we should just propose a Greco-Californian merger, with Papandreou staying on as CEO of the combined entity.